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Climate change is one of the most hotly debated issues of our time, both from an economic and a moral viewpoint. And whenever someone makes a case for action from a moral stance, most often they’ll justify it by invoking the future plight of the world and the children that will inherit it. It’s a delicate subject, after all, what’s more important than our children?
In March, Ron Dembo visited the Skoll World Forum in Oxford where he was selected from a pool of more than 800 delegates and speakers to participate in an exclusive interview with TakePart:
Cities are no longer waiting for their national governments to take the lead in reducing air pollution. They're taking matters into their own hands.
Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley announced a plan in September to reduce heat-trapping gases to three-fourths of 1990 levels by 2020. The plan calls for installing solar panels on municipal property and building alternative fueling
OTTAWA – Green party Leader Elizabeth May says her whistle-stop campaign tour is the green way to go and it seems she’s right.
May says her cross-country train journey will spew fewer greenhouse-gas emissions into the atmosphere than a plane trip. A carbon offset firm says her claim isn’t just hot air. Jay Goldman of Toronto-based Zerofootprint
Imagine a tool that could link the citizens of large world cities around issues involving climate change. Imagine further that these citizens could be mobilized to reduce their environmental footprint and their collective actions could be measured and celebrated.
To give an example, imagine mobilizing the citizens of the C40 cities (a group of large cities
How do I take the guesswork out of carbon measurement?
Your carbon and environmental questions answered. An interview between Zerofootprint Founder and CEO, Ron Dembo and Jill Buck, founder of the Go Green Initiative, host of the Go Green Radio Show.
